106 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 2 - Book 9 - Israel: From Joshua to Nehemiah

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 9 ISRAEL: FROM JOSHUA TO NEHEMIAH Now remember who they are: the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh. Now turn with me to II Kings Chapter 17. Now just exactly as God promised (we studied it two or three weeks ago), what kind of an effect did the Canaanite people have upon the children of Israel? How a nation of people such as Israel, who had all of the manifestations, the miracle working power of their JEHOVAH God in their midst, could turn to pagan idols. A God centered government. Israel, after all of her ups and downs, has it fairly good at the time of Samuel. But Samuel is getting old. I Samuel 8:4,5 See, everyone had their King. You want to remember that when God made that Covenant first with Abraham and then with Moses and the nation of Israel, the first thing that He mandated was that Israel was to be different. They were to be a set-apart nation of people. They've all got a King, we want a King." And poor old Samuel is just heartbroken. I Samuel 8:6,7a "But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, `Give us a king to judge (or rule) us.' And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. And the LORD said unto Samuel, `Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: (do you hear what He's saying? Now I imagine that Israel well knew that all these nations around them that had kings were pagan. I always have to stress that no one but Israel had the knowledge of the One True God. So anyway, they've rejected God and He says, "Go ahead and let them have a king." And when you get into Chapter 9, you get the account of Israel choosing their first king, and who is it? King Saul. Adam, the first man was natural. Christ. First the natural and then the spiritual. The second wasAble, the spiritual man. Now we come to King Saul, the natural, not a godly man. David, the spiritual. We're natural. Spiritual. First the natural and then the spiritual. So then King Saul comes on the scene as the first king. He is natural. Now just as a quick, off-the-cuff review of Israel's history. Most of you are aware that after David dies, and Solomon takes the throne, Solomon took the Kingdom of Israel to it's greatest height. Under Solomon, Israel even had a little more than the 2 1/2 tribes had on the east side of Jordan. Remember under the Abrahamic Covenant the Euphrates River was the eastern border of the Nation of Israel. King Solomon didn't get all their land, but he got more than any other of Israel's kings. Solomon indeed produced copper. Well, with his 900 pagan wives, and his altars all over Israel, he was setting the stage for the fall and demise again of God's Covenant people. So Solomon dies. And Solomon has a son by the name of Rehoboam. Back off from that and Israel will just elevate you. Tax them some more." The first part of Israel that will go into abject idolatry will be the northern kingdom under Jeroboam. So now we come to II Kings Chapter 17. Here was the state of Israel. II Kings 17:7-9a,10 "For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, And walked in the statues of (who?) the heathen (imagine. They became just exactly like those heathen Canaanites all around them.), whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God... II Kings 17:11 II Kings 17:12 II Kings 17:14a,15a,16a II Kings 17:17 Well God couldn't take it any more. Jeremiah foretold all these things and tried to warn Israel as well as Judah. Remember Jeremiah was primarily in the Southern Kingdom. Jeremiah 44:15,16 "Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods (who was doing it? Jeremiah 44:17a Jeremiah 44:18 Jeremiah 44:20-22a "Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, `The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind? Now let's come back to II Kings. Remember, we are talking about the Northern 10 Tribes: II Kings 17:18 "Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only." II Kings 17:20 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible